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Some 2,500 people were killed and 350,000 forced to flee their homes in southern Sudan last year (Photo: USAID)

Sudan - the first challenge for the EU's new foreign policy chief

Responding to the worsening conflict in Africa's largest country will represent the first test of whether under the new Lisbon Treaty, Europe can live up to its potential for coordinated foreign policy action and effective conflict prevention.

On Saturday (9 January), Sudan marked the fifth anniversary of the signing of the peace agreement between the Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement that ended one of Africa's longest and deadliest wars.

But a new re...

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Some 2,500 people were killed and 350,000 forced to flee their homes in southern Sudan last year (Photo: USAID)

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